Antarctica: The Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901-1903: Six covers or cards dating between 1904 and 1907, all personally addressed (in different languages) to ‘Carl Skottsberg, Swedish Antarctic Expedition, Sweden’, botanist of the expedition, and with scientific messages on the cards or letters enclosed, sent from Argentina, Germany (3), Great Britain or France, the last mentioning the Falklands and South Georgia. Also six original...
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Lot #1536 - falkland islands and antarctica antarctica: swedish south polar expedition 1901-04
Lot #1537 - falkland islands and antarctica antarctica: swedish south polar expedition 1901-04
Antarctica: The Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901-1903: The Carl Skottsberg scientific correspondence, a collection of 43 covers or cards addressed to expedition botanist Skottsberg between 1904 and 1928 from a range of countries, all with messages or enclosing letters. Also seventeen covers or cards from 1881 to 1914 to other family members or relatives of Carl Skottsberg, mostly within Sweden. A most interesting assembly.
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Lot #1538 - falkland islands and antarctica antarctica: swedish south polar expedition 1901-04
Antarctica: Swedish South Polar Expedition 1901-04: Ballester of Punta Arenas card “Naufragio del Antarctic - Los últimos momentos” used 1904 (Dec. 28) from Magellanes, Chile, to Miss E. Biggs in Port Stanley with Jan. 3 1905 arrival datestamp, bearing 1c. on 10c. on picture side but charged underpaid with handstruck “T” (ms. “ov 4 ct”). Photo.
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